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Dec 6!! My new kids will be home!! After 9 months and 9 days I will "give birth" to the 4 children of my heart!
Thank you Lord for such an awesome gift |
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Carrie asked the ages of all my children including our newest...
I have
I will be a super busy exceedingly happy mama!! |
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They are coming!!
They should be here within a day or so of our 9 months of waiting from the date of us being the chosen adoptive family.
WOOHOO!!!
So we should grow from 6 to 10 somewhere around the 29th. |
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We hand delievered our physicals to the ICPC office today.
I had set up the physicals for Nov 8th a couple of weeks ago.
This is supposed to be our last hoop before TX gets the ok to send the children.
I am praying...But no longer holding my breath...I dislike looking like a smurf.... |
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Their anniversay is actually around Thanksgiving but as we will not all be togeather for that holiday we celebrated this weekend past. 65 years is amazing now a days.
I can only hope and pray we can see them celebrate 70. They are both in fair health, but are walking on their own and even drive 3 hours so that we could all meet centrally! WOW!! |
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As of 1 week ago KS ICPC "should" have recieved our homestudy in triplicate. Now we await their approval and then they will contact TX. At that point the children's SWer will be given the ok to get our kids home.
We are now at 8 months 10 days past us being choosen as the adoptive family. |
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We have gotten our paperwork off to our SWer... it is all in God's hands now.
Prayerfully our SWer can get it to ICPC this next week and that she can get it to TX. |
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G (my 4 yo boy) was in the upstairs bathroom because he had been upstairs with T (13 yo girl). I guess she left her room and told him she was coming downstairs. He wigged out |
I heard him screaming so up I went. I didn't know she was downstairs her having come down the back steps while I went up the front. He was on the toilet and had "went" and needed wiped. I did the deed and we both came downstairs. As we were coming down G informed me he had swallowed the rare piece of gum - actually a half stick.
And as they say the FUN has JUST begun 
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I rushed around our dear capital city today.
I got news yesterday that I needed to get background checks on my 11 and 13 year old children...Ummmm...OK?!?!
I reached our social services office shortly before noon. They got me in and we not acting if this could be done today. I guess I kinda lost it - I cried and told how these papers were the only thing between my children coming home and them not being with me for Christmas - these can take between 2 and 6 weeks and I want my children home yesterday! I would guess the lady must have felt sorry for me. I had my paperwork in 15 minutes....
KBI was another story - They could take my papers, do them today, but couldn't give them back to me to give our SWer. They have to send them out to our SWer, your tax dollars hard at work! I could have saved us almost 40 cents |
Anywooo.... They were going to try and get it out in the 2 pm mail 
If it went out our SWer will get it tomorrow. We could - MAYBE - get our paperwork out to TX by next week.....|
The paperwork is moving - although slowly. We are now waiting for our SWer to complete our homestudy. He was here on Tuesday. So we wait....
IF and that is a mighty huge IF we can get all paperwork completed by Nov. 8th then get it to TX within a day - My kids "Could" be here the weekend before Thanksgiving.
However the TX SWer feels it will be the beginning of Dec. |
That is almost 2 more months....|
Supposedly, the contract was overnighted last Friday. I ended up calling TX today to have another copy sent to our SWer. Our homestudy will be updated on Tuesday. Then prayerfully we can get the state paperwork OUT of the way!!
On a bright note - Our ND is such a bright boy. We were told when we adopted him that he would not likely ever be potty trained.
Today we had out some Texas toast. ND walked by pointed at the word Texas looked at me and stated "Texas mom!" and walked on!
This last week he has taken the wooden blocks and spelled Fish and Dog. When at first he mixed up the letters he was very disgruntled. He studied it and studied it. Finally he arranged the letters correctly. He was so proud of himself! I am SO proud of him.
This child has FAE, is mild mentally retarded, and has a form of autism. With God ALL things are possible!! |
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She will begin hormone therapy this week coming. Her weight and height has fallen off the growth charts. Her pituatary gland is beginning to fail.She will 2 in Dec. |
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Some copies of the contract were faxed today to KS and a hardcopy will be overnighted tomorrow!!!
WOOHOO!!
Lets get this show on the road and get my kids here by Thanksgiving!! That would be just shy of 9 months! What a pregnancy!!
Our homestudy expires this month so that will need to be updated. I have persons writing my reference letters already.
We are praying that ICPC persons here will see the contract and let our SWer proceed with the homestudy so we can get the kids here!
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Carrie asked if we would be able to homeschool the kids.
Due to state laws here we don't "have" to have the younger boys in school - could homeschool them without violating any laws. So that was a consideration.
But the big factor for them saying yes to us homeschooling was that my dear husband works 2nd shift and the children would never see him. We have been told that we will receive a homeschool waiver. |
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The kids Swer and I chatted Friday.
She confirmed what I already knew...
If we back out (we are not currently thinking about it either) there is VERY LITTLE chance that all 4 would be adopted together.
She said that the kids would be split and that "MAYBE, JUST MAYBE" the little boys would be adopted This just breaks my heart. The boys are only 5 and 6, the girls 7 and 10.
I read somewhere once - and I dont remember where - the if you are a minority male over the age of 5 that you have a 2 % chance of being adopted.
Add into this that there are 4 children ALL over the age of 5 and that they are all a minority. |
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The SWer in TX has contacted people in both ICPC (interstate paperwork) and the contract person.
Now ICPC wants this thing to move with the contract... so prayerfully....
My kids "could" be here "perhaps" by Thanksgiving AND K's birthday is just 2 days before. D - our son already here - his birthday is 2 days after!
By the way... I have decided that there is very little that is as surine as sunset. It always calms me to know that I have made it 1 more day!
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Our contract with TX and our agency still hasn't been renewed... So still no futher this week than last.
Our landlord is acting very strange since his heat stroke this summer. He is a widower and 80. Today he was not approiate toward me. I just feel yucky. |
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We are now almost 7 months (the 28th) into our paperwork adoption.
Anyone who thinks because the ICPC paperwork arrives in your state that the children are almost home is just a fool! Call me a class A1 fool!
Now the ICPC paperwork has been sent BACK to the TX!!
Our adoption agency's contract - different than ICPC, but VERY needed - has expired the end of Aug. However paperwork to renew was sent in in July. BUT!! the paperwork had pages included that were no longer valid. The valid pages were not sent. So when the paperwork reached the understaffed office in TX it was reviewed and set aside to deal with later!!!!!
Supposedly the new forms were emailed to our adoption agency yesterday. If so they would have been completed and sent back to TX. So now how many more days, weeks, or months will we need to wait to hear something?!
I am way more weary than before and "my" children are growing and changing before I can even get to meet them. I have missed 3 birthdays now and a fourth in November if they are not here by Thanksgiving.
If you are a praying person please keep us in your prayers. |
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Things have been interesting to say the least.
We've had some good and some bad days. However after 5 months the paperwork has finally arrived in KS from TX. Should I be terrified? I will, maybe, soon be the mother of 8 children - ages 4 to 13.
With all the delays I must admit I am weary right now. This was a much crazier roller coaster ride than our previous adoption through TX.
At this point I would just ask for prayer for my husband and I to really just feel God's will in this adoption or for the door to be shut. There are many variables right now and they really are just in God's hands. |
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I have been called crazy, weird, a nut and blessed all for the same thing - My love of children. Yet honestly, I just can't imagine a greater calling.
I am so rewarded daily - a kiss from the child who was mad at me minutes ago, a sentence from the child we were told would never talk, a loving gesture from my sweet innocent 13 year old, being called mama...What greater blessing could one ask for?
I haven't written in quite a while due to all my children. We are currently raising 7 and waiting for our 4 newest children to be able to join our family. (State paperwork - UGH!) At present we have 4 legally ours and have had for over 2 months now (with the exception of about 1 week total) our 2 nieces and 1 nephew.
Yes it is crazy at times, but whose life isn't?? I mean I don't have to rush out the door to be at work. I don't have to dress up, just get dressed :) I don't have to buy lunch out - unless my husband and I sneak a lunch date in at McD's while the kids roam the tubes.
What could be more romantic than to look into your true loves eyes and see the pride of and in his family. I honestly think he looks pretty darn good wiping noses :) I mean the love for us radiates from him...YOOHOO!!
Yes I am a bit crazy for my kids... a bit weird over how much I care about how they are and what they are doing... I am a whole lot of nuts over my family, but that is ok as we all live on the same tree... But I am a huge amount of Blessed!! |